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Poland 'Loses' Georgia In EU Diplomatic Race
Poland appears to have changed its policy of unconditional support for Georgia against Russian intimidation, a recent interview given by the country's president suggests. Warsaw has also reportedly abandoned hope of securing the position of EU Ambass...
Facebook Says Santander Best Match For BZ WBK
It turns out some Poles feel strongly about who will buy Bank Zachodni WBK. The other day as I was leaving our office building, our doorman asked me: "So, what do you think, who'll buy it? PKO or Santander?" Surprised he was even aware BZ WBK was f...
Boon or bane?
Should Poland's shale-gas dreams materialise, will they transform the country into a Norway or a Turkmenistan?
Poland Determined to Build National Electricity Champion
Poland's state-controlled electric energy utility PGE now seems the most likely buyer of smaller rival Energa. The deal, which could be worth around $2.7 billion, would create a national energy champion in Poland.
Poland’s Heated Row Over Cross Reaches Boiling Point
Four months after the plane crash that killed Poland's Lech Kaczynski and others, crowds still gather in Warsaw. But the spirit of unity has been replaced with deep divisions over the role of Catholicism in the formally secular country.
Part of Nazi Camp Majdanek Goes Up in Flames
A wooden barrack at the former German Nazi concentration camp Majdanek in present-day eastern Poland was nearly completely destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The building was full of shoes of the victims of the forced labor camp.
Warsaw, a City Once Reduced to Rubble
Warsaw was nearly flattened during World War II and, more than 60 year later, it remains a casualty of war. A new 3-D movie shows the extent of the damage.
Bronislaw Komorowski Sworn In as Poland’s New President
Bronislaw Komorowski was sworn in as Poland's new president Friday, taking the country's highest office for a five-year term.
The Cross and the State
Many Poles hoped that April plane crash of the Polish presidential jet would shock the nation enough to bridge the divide between conservative and liberal camps. But it's only added fuel to the already heated debate about whose values should prevail.
Czech and Poland Decoupling From Region, or Vice Versa
Assets in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary have long been lumped into one basket by investors. But with Hungary on its own adventure and Slovakia firmly entrenched in the euro zone, Polish and Czech markets are decoupling.
Polish State Still Suspicious of Things Digital
The company that stands to gain the most from the postponed digital revolution is the state-owned postal administration.
Chugging along
Polish railways are finally getting a facelift—shame about the price tag...
Poland’s Privatization Drive Partially Fake, Expert Says
Experts say many of Poland's privatization projects don't turn state-owned companies into private ones because the primary objective is to generate money for the cash-strapped government budget.
Ars Homo Erotica: 'bring the toilet to Warsaw national museum'
Before the Euro pride parade on 17 July, exhibition curator Pawel Leszkowicz talks lesbian art, punching viewers in faces and explains why art and the Polish capital's largest museum is a live nerve of democracies...
Biting The Fiscal Bullet In Poland
There is a good deal of speculation in the press at the moment over the tricky issue of whether or not Poland will be able to comply with its agreed deficit-reduction deadline on the basis of the latest budget proposals announced by the government th...
The Polish System of Collective Bargaining
The Polish Labour Code (Chapter XI of Act of 26 June 1974) provides legal regulations for collective bargaining in Poland at two levels. The company agreements are negotiated between an employer or one or more regional trade union organisations at co...
Poles vote for continuity in presidential election
WARSAW - Bronislaw Komorowski celebrated with supporters at his election campaign headquarters here in Warsaw last night, as polls show him the likely next president. Komorowski’s victory over Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of former...
President Komorowski: victorious but soon to be obscure
Bronislaw Komorowski will become Poland'' s next president. Don't expect to hear from him again...
US, Poland sign missile shield amendment in Clinton visit
The United States and Poland signed an amendment to a US missile shield deal during a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a high-level meeting Saturday in Krakow focusing on promoting democracy, dpa reported. READ MORE...
Belgian EU presidency would support enlargement
Belgium will support the enlargement of the European Union to include Croatia, Iceland and Turkey during its forthcoming presidency of the bloc. READ MORE...
Poland's Kaczynski stirs pride, anxiety before poll
His core conservative supporters see Jaroslaw Kaczynski as an honest patriot who will champion Poland's national interests in the European Union and beyond if he wins Sunday's presidential election run-off. READ MORE...
Sergey Boyarkin: Rosenergoatom can Negotiate Freely
North Germany Experiences Energy Deficit that is Still Covered by the Energy Imported from Poland. READ MORE...
Why Poland Can’t Build Fast Enough
The past few days provided a dramatic example of the legal uncertainties facing real-estate investors in Poland.
Polish Finance Minister Takes Alarmist Tone
Poland's usually low-key Finance Minister Jan Vincent-Rostowski surprised economists Thursday when he sounded a stern warning to the country's electorate should it back Jaroslaw Kaczynski as new president. Mr. Rostowski, an acclaimed economist himsel...
Only one Holocaust
A stern riposte from Poland's Jewish leaders to an American slur...
Poland Wants to Refuse of Russian Gas Partially
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk intends to change a gas agreement with Russia, if it turns out that the part of needs could be covered by the gas produced from shale. This was stated by Prime Minister during the interview for Radiо Zet. Acco...
Runoff Seen in Poland’s Presidential Race
The Sunday vote in the Polish presidential election isn't expected to make anyone president-elect yet, with a runoff likely on July 4, after two months of a campaign when leading candidates tried to turn the tables on each other and strike unusual po...
Poland to EU: Get serious about Russia
A broadside from Poland's foreign minister about EU-Russia relations...
Conservative Gains Ground in Poland’s Presidential Race
The Polish presidential race is getting increasingly tight between the two main candidates, to the surprise of many commentators.
Murdered Polish priest’s beatification recalls grim early 1980s
A Polish priest who was murdered in 1984 by secret policemen working for the then ruling communist authorities was beatified last weekend by the Vatican, a step that puts him on course for eventual sainthood. The news meant a lot to me because,...
EU: Convergence programme Poland
Stability programmes for eurozone countries on the one hand, convergence programmes for member states still without the euro. You can start by reading the background remarks on economic policy coordination in the European Union, in the blog post EU:...
The final moments
More news on the air crash that killed the Polish president...
Polish government cuts ODA to Africa
The Institute of Global Responsibility (IGO) has issued a press release on the results of the 2010 Call for Proposals by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs which addresses the cut of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for NGOs working in the p...
Visit of Commissioner Piebalgs in Poland to promote development policy
On 17 May, European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs will pay his first visit to Poland, in Warsaw. He will launch the second series of the "Kapuściński Lectures", designed to raise awareness on development cooperation.
Long piece on power and history
Report No. 30: Putin, Power and History: Does the Past Still Matter?Posted Date: 3 May 2010Following last month’s joint Polish-Russian memorials to commemorate the Katyń massacre, and the outpouring of Russian sympathy since the plane crash that k...
Russia is gaining ground on the relationship with Poland
Only 20 of the 98 delegates who originally announced their participation in the funeral of Poland were present at the ceremony Sunday. Among the leaders who arrived to Krakow were the Russian presidents – Dmitry Medvedev, Czech Republic –...
The Polish tragedy commemorated
The ghastly accident that happened on Saturday morning at Smolensk has cast a heavy pall over this busy week. The EESC’s President and his SG have of course sent letters of condolence to the Polish government and people and to our own members a...
What next for decapitated Poland?
I literally gasped this weekend when I turned on the TV in my hotel in Amsterdam and saw that a plane carrying the Polish president and 95 top officials in the Polish government had crashed in Russia. Before long the reports had been verified – the...
Poland in shock over President Kaczynski’s death
Poles were left in shock and grief Saturday after President Lech Kaczynski's death in a plane crash that killed at least 95 people, including dozens of high-ranking Polish politicians and officials. READ MORE...
Polska
Polska « Nous Européens, sommes tous citoyens polonais », l’apostrophe est de Julien Frisch et résume l’état d’esprit général du monde et de la blogosphère apr&eg...
Poland's tragic air crash
Why was the President in a Soviet-era airplane?
Poland mourning… My consolations…
People light candles and lay flowers in front of the Poland’s embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, April 10, 2010, after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country’s highest...
Europe in blogs - Euroblogs (16): Poland
As I have said in my previous post, "All Europeans are Polish citizens today", and Euroblogs from all over the continent are reacting to the Polish tragedy that has happened this morning.* Danish: Anne Albinus English: Stephen Spillane (Ireland) Ga...
RIP
Reading the news about the plane crash in Russia with the Polish elite on the plane, included President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, the former Polish president-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the Head of State Defence, the heads of all of Poland’s ar...
The cruelty of Polish history
News item - In the village of Gorzno, in northern Poland, the streets were largely empty as people stayed home to watch television. “It is very symbolic that they were flying to pay homage to so many murdered Poles,” said resident Waleria...
Mourning
“All Europeans are Polish citizens today.” Post and text inspired by Julien Frisch...
National mourning in Poland
From Gazeta Wyborcza (translation contributed by ThatBritGuy in the comments):No one survived The first family,...
Poland is in shock – President Lech Kaczynski died in plane crash in SW Russia
11:56, 10/04/2010 (Moscow time) MOSCOW, April 10 (RIA Novosti) – A passenger plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed near the city of Smolensk, killing all 87 on board, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday. Polish Foreign...
My Condolences to Poland
I would like to express my deepest condolences to the families of all Polish citizens on board of the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński and to the Polish people as a whole for their loss. I would also like to extend my condolences to al...
Katyn and Putin
Europe.view nr 178We regret the inconvenienceApr 8th 2010 From Economist.comRussia attempts to resolve disputes with its neighbours over Soviet-era crimesAS THIS column noted recently, the era of “therapeutic historiography” is drawing to a close...
Islamification Myth WATCH: Islamophobia and Islamification myth hit Poland
Yep - the Islamification myth has hit Poland! This shows two thing: One, that the moral panic about "Muslims" in EU Member States does not depend on population of Muslims, only when Muslims try to exercise their freedom of worship and expression. Sec...
